How do you deep clean your cage?

[Impawsiblesquad]

My beardie's enclosure has gotten a little stinky(mostly the accessories and her carpet since I have trouble cleaning them) so I was wondering if there were good ways to deep clean it. I read somewhere that a soapy sponge would work just fine... Is that true?

 

[CooperDragon]

Carpet is hard to keep clean/sanitary. When I used repticarpet I'd put it through the washing machine and then let it line dry which worked fairly well, but would degrade the carpet fairly quickly so I switched to solid substrate. I mostly clean with vinegar which does a good job of getting solids picked up. Then I sanitize surfaces by spraying them with F10, occasionally I'll sanitize w/heat using a steam cleaner. The nozzle on that is small though so it takes a long time to sanitize the entire enclosure that way.

 

[KarrieRee]

I use F 10 -- take all the decor pieces out along w/ the tile and spray w/ F 10 - my pieces are washable resin so its easy - I spray let sit for 10 minutes or so then rinse in the sink - and wash the tank out - I had some really musty smell going in Blazes tank a month or so ago and the F 10 got rid of that smell - I could never figure out what or where it was coming from but the F 10 killed it what ever it was
Karrie

 

[Impawsiblesquad]

Okay. I'll try that. Thanks, guys!